MetaWin Review

MetaWin is a warning review, and the warning has a precise shape. The licence is not the problem: the Anjouan register lists metawin.com under Rivolo Limited, the footer seal validates on the regulator’s own domain with the same entity and number, and routine on-chain withdrawals are reported as instant by hundreds of players. What earns the warning is what happens once the casino decides to look at an account. Casino.Guru’s live ledger shows six complaints, zero resolved and three unresolved, which on that platform means the mediator sided with the player and the casino did not comply, under a 2.9 “Very low” Safety Index and an explicit “we highly encourage players to avoid this casino”. AskGamblers shows zero of three resolved, including a $38,000 balance restricted with “zero evidence or explanation”. And MetaWin’s own contract, clause 8.3, says the casino “may suspend, or close a users MetaWin account and withhold funds at any point”. The disputed sums in the record are $28,000, $38,000, $50,000 and $166,000: winner-sized, not bonus-sized. The warning is not “it never pays”. It is “it pays routine sums instantly and, on the mediated record, has never once paid a disputed winner”.

Review level: desk research, non-affiliate. We have no affiliate relationship with MetaWin and earn nothing if you sign up there; no /go/ link, code or logo appears on this page. Every fact below comes from one of three places, named each time: the regulator’s own register and seal validator, MetaWin’s own legal pages (read in full on 5 October 2026), and the public mediator and forum records (Casino.Guru, AskGamblers, Trustpilot and Bitcointalk). One access limit matters: Casino.Guru’s individual complaint threads for MetaWin could not be opened from any route we tried, so every Casino.Guru docket below is described from the complaint index on the review page (title and disputed amount), not from the thread itself. We have not run a RateCorner-funded deposit-and-withdrawal test.

Facts at a glance

The Licence: Verified Twice, With a Gap on the Register

MetaWin is licensed and the licence checks out at the source, twice. The Anjouan Gaming public register, pulled live on 5 October 2026 (1,539 rows parsed, with Tsars, Wolfbet and Gamdom found in the same payload as controls), lists metawin.com under Rivolo Limited, licence ALSI-202602025-FI1, type B2C, issued 16 February 2026, expiry 15 February 2027. The footer seal, fetched with its full seal id and stamp, returns “Company name Rivolo Limited … Registered Website(s) metawin.com Operating status: VALID” and the same licence number. For an Anjouan licence that is the strongest verification the instrument can give, and anyone calling MetaWin unlicensed is wrong. Three things sit on what it is worth.

• The register shows a gap. metawin.com appears in exactly two rows. The first is the old operator, Asobi N.V., licence ALSI-152312009-FI3, issued 12 December 2023 and expired 4 February 2026 (the row still reads “valid”, which on this register is decorative; the expiry date is the real signal). The second is the Rivolo row, issued 16 February 2026. Between 5 and 15 February 2026 no row on the register covered metawin.com. We can say the register shows a 12-day gap between the two rows. We cannot say what the site did in those 12 days: the archive holds no usable snapshot and the site publishes no notice, so we do not describe it as having operated unlicensed, and nobody else should either. Why the swap happened is not stated anywhere we could read.
• The old entity is still on the site. The Privacy Policy, verbatim, “explains how Asobi N.V (owner of MetaWin.com) uses your personal information”. The Responsible Gambling page, dated 26 April 2024, quotes the new licence number while defining “the Company” as Asobi N.V. Casino.Guru and AskGamblers still list Asobi N.V. as the operator, and most of the complaint record below was earned under it.
• The regulator’s own carve-out. The validator’s excluded-territories list reads “Australia, Comoros, France, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom, USA” and states that disputes from players in those territories “fall entirely outside the regulatory scope of the Anjouan Internet Gaming License”. For everyone else, the recourse is an instrument that names no player-dispute mechanism, and a T&C clause (22.1.1) that names no ADR body and no regulator. The term runs to 15 February 2027; we will re-read the register that week.

Payout Speed & Withdrawal Limits

For routine sums the speed claim survives checking at second hand. The FAQ says “Instant approval” and “Typically instant. In some instances, withdrawals may take up to 24 hours”, and the five-star Trustpilot stream is overwhelmingly about instant on-chain cashouts. The most useful single data point comes from a complainant, not a fan: the Bitcointalk poster behind the $1,815 case below documents about $14,821 withdrawn against about $6,270 deposited since 1 December 2025, including $10,004 on day one. Large routine withdrawals have paid. Then come the conditions, and the first is the one that matters most on this page.

“Net” means winnings above deposits per day (the FAQ’s example: “$2,000 (net deposit) + $100,000 = $120,000” at Gold). At Unranked, by the FAQ’s figures, the $1,500,000 maximum win in clause 10.3.1 would take 150 days to leave the site, and the binding 5 ETH figure is tighter still. There is no instalment clause; the drip is built from the daily cap.

Two more conditions are in the contract. “All Deposits must be turned over 1x before withdrawal. HODL play is excluded.” (FAQ and T&C 5.4) applies to every deposit, bonus or not. And the hold language is broad: 5.3 lets MetaWin “delay, limit, withhold, or reverse transactions pending investigation”, and 8.3 is the sentence this review turns on. What “instant” becomes once a withdrawal is flagged is what getting your money out is about, and where MetaWin’s caps sit against the market is in our crypto casino withdrawal study.

KYC & Account Policy

MetaWin’s front door is the lightest in our files, and it is honest about what it is. The FAQ, verbatim: “there is no traditional registration form. Simply connect a cryptocurrency wallet … and you’re ready to play! You can also sign up with email or Google”. The pages we read make no “no-KYC” promise; they sell wallet convenience, not anonymity.

The KYC Policy and the contract say what can follow, more plainly than most. Standard documents are a government-issued photo ID, a selfie, possibly “an image of your ID next to a handwritten note showing six randomly generated numbers”, and a proof of address issued within three months. The one numeric trigger on the site is KYC Policy 1.3: source-of-funds checks “when deposits or withdrawals reach certain thresholds (e.g., >= 5 ETH or the fiat equivalent within a calendar month, or other limits set by us from time to time)”. Everything else is discretionary: 10.0.4 reserves KYC “at our sole discretion”, 10.0.5 adds “enhanced verification” and the right to “suspend withdrawal processing” for sportsbook users, and the policy’s trigger list runs from mixer use and IP mismatches to “participation in promotions, high-value events, or special programs”. The teeth are in 10.0.2: a document not supplied “within 7 days’ of the date the document was first requested” means “we will deactivate your Customer Account”, and 10.1.1 adds that a balance “may be forfeited if a Customer Account is deactivated for any reason, or at our discretion”.

Scored on the pitch alone this would be a risk-triggered, honestly disclosed model. What pulls the score to 2.0 is the record: the closures described next mostly involve no document request at all, and in the self-exclusion cases KYC appears as a gate on leaving, not on cashing out. Where this model sits against others is covered in no-KYC vs soft-KYC casinos.

The Close-and-Keep Pattern: “Management Decision”

The recurring signature in the MetaWin record is not slow payment. It is a winning session or a withdrawal attempt, then “under review”, then a closure described as a “management decision”, with no reason given, no document requested and the balance kept. The mediator records carry it; the Trustpilot record shows it repeating.

• AskGamblers, $38,000, unresolved. A Web3-wallet account; after play, access was restricted with no explanation. The player holds balance and betting-history screenshots; support gave “automated template responses and refuses to explain the grounds”. The same case appears on Casino.Guru’s index as “Player’s account access is blocked”, $38,000, and in a Trustpilot review by the same player. One player, three platforms; we count it once.
• AskGamblers, $400, unresolved. A deposit, a blackjack run to 400 USDC, a withdrawal that would not go through. One agent said the account was under review; on 14 March 2026 another said it had been closed “following a management decision” and that agents “do not have access to the specific details regarding this decision”. Small money; the mechanism is the finding.
• Casino.Guru index: $50,000 “Player’s account has been closed”; $28,000 “Player’s winnings are confiscated without evidence”; 4 ETH “Withdrawal of player’s winnings has been delayed”. These are the titles and amounts as the complaint index on Casino.Guru’s review page lists them. The threads themselves could not be opened from any route we tried, so we do not know which three of the six cases are the unresolved ones, and we do not quote from them. What the page does state is that of six complaints none was resolved and three are unresolved, and that the casino shows “a very high value of denied payouts in player complaints with respect to its size”.
• Trustpilot, the pattern repeating (one dated account, used only to show repetition). 2 April 2026: locked out in early March, told in April the ground was multiple accounts on the same game provider “at different casinos”, $900 kept; the casino’s written answer quoted as “closed due to a management decision. As per our Terms and Conditions. We are unable to provide further information.” MetaWin replies to about 10% of its negative reviews, and the replies invite a support ticket rather than deny anything.

Fairness has two parts. First, three of Casino.Guru’s six cases were rejected, meaning the mediator sided with the casino, so this is not a confiscation machine for everyone; some closures will have had a real breach behind them. Second, the one forum case we read in full is not a confiscation and we do not count it as one: Bitcointalk topic 5578771 (30 March 2026) describes a player whose withdrawal-confirmation emails stopped arriving while marketing emails from the same sender landed, who waited about 12 hours for support, cancelled, and played and lost the $1,815 balance. Support’s explanation was “Your notifications for your emails were not enabled I have enabled them now” and “I do not know why”; MetaWin’s formal response called notifications “an optional account setting”. The forum’s verdict was “poor customer management but not a scam”, and the poster accepted that the loss was self-inflicted after the failure. We cite it as friction on a winning account, never as theft. The signals that separate a review from a seizure before you deposit are the subject of how to spot a casino that freezes withdrawals.

Self-Exclusion Requests That Were Not Honoured

The largest number in the whole record sits here. Casino.Guru’s index lists “Player’s self-exclusion was ignored by the casino” at $166,000 and “Player seeks refund due to ineffective self-exclusion policy” at 20,000 INR. Both are the same behaviour class: a player asks to be locked out, is not, and loses money afterwards. As with every Casino.Guru docket here, the titles and amounts are as the complaint index states them.

Trustpilot carries the same shape, dated 30 September 2026: “they will not let me close it. They claim I must kyc before they close it”. The terms explain the mechanism: 4.5.1 routes closure requests through a support ticket and “approval by our Customer Support and Compliance teams”, and 4.5.3 disclaims any refund of losses in the meantime. The Self-Exclusion Policy page adds that an “official Self-Exclusion Form” must be returned within 24 hours or the account defaults to a seven-day timeout, and that “Losses during this period will not be refunded.” No self-serve deposit, loss, wager or session limit is documented on any page we read; the Responsible Gambling page advises players to “Set yourself a deposit limit” and describes no tool for doing so.

Casino.Guru’s 2.9: What the Number Measures

Casino.Guru’s Safety Index for MetaWin is 2.9 “Very low”, with the sentence “We highly encourage players to avoid this casino and seek out one with a higher Safety Index.” Page last updated October 2025, read 5 October 2026.

Three components drive it, all mediator-measured rather than crowd noise. The ledger: 6 total, 0 opened, 3 unresolved, 0 resolved, 3 rejected, with 19,190 black points. On this platform “unresolved” means the mediator sided with the player and the casino did not comply, so “zero resolved, three unresolved” means no documented instance of MetaWin paying after mediation and three of it not doing so. The size judgement: “a very high value of denied payouts in player complaints with respect to its size”. And the terms, rated “Unfair” on two named clauses: “Newly added restricted territory may affect existing players’ gaming account balances” (T&C 14.3, under which a merely proposed legal change in your region means “all funds shall be void with no financial compensation offered”) and “Casino voids gaming account balances after less than two years of account inactivity” (4.4 and 10.1.0: a balance “valid for 365 days from the date you last logged on” and zeroed after 12 months of no transactions “with no offer of any purchase refunds”).

To keep it straight: MetaWin is not on a Casino.Guru blacklist and does not carry the formal “not recommended” label; the avoid language is in the index text. Casino.Guru’s listed operator (Asobi N.V.) and win limit are stale against the live terms, so the complaint ledger, not the metadata, is the part to rely on.

Games & Providers

The library is a standard big crypto-casino catalogue, with the count resting on the site’s own word: “4,600+ games” in the FAQ, “4,000+” on the games hub. The sitemap carries no game pages, so the figure cannot be reproduced, and we report it as 4,000 to 4,600 by MetaWin’s own numbers. The providers page lists 49 slugs, two of them in-house, so about 47 third-party studios: Evolution, Pragmatic Play, NetEnt, Nolimit City, Hacksaw, Play’n GO, Big Time Gaming, Red Tiger, Relax, Thunderkick, Yggdrasil, BGaming, Blueprint and more.

In-house there are the “MetaWin Originals” (Crash, Dice, Mines, Plinko and others) and “Gladiator Games” exclusive slots. A “Zero House Edge Originals” class is defined in T&C 10.3.3 at “a return-to-player (RTP) of 100%”, capped at $25,000 per round with any excess “not … payable under any circumstance”; that cap is where the 100% RTP marketing stops. The FAQ says “Is MetaWin provably fair? Yes.” and the hub says “every Original is provably fair, so you can check any result yourself”, but no provably-fair page rendered for us and no verifier or seed-rotation description appears on any page we read, so for the Originals the claim is a bare claim this pass. In MetaWin’s favour, the FAQ describes a “Live RTP transparency” display of actual game RTP over the trailing 24 hours. What a real provably-fair verifier should let you do is in our provably fair guide. The score is 3.5: standard and adequate, unverifiable in count, undocumented on the one mechanism that would lift it.

Bonuses: There Is No Deposit Bonus

MetaWin runs no deposit-match welcome bonus and no promo codes. Its own promo-code page says “MetaWin doesn’t have a casino promo code” and “we don’t have a traditional no deposit bonus”. There is no 40x wagering trap, no max-bet clause and no bonus win cap, because there is no bonus of that kind to attach them to. What replaces it has three layers.

Prize Funds, “30% extra on every deposit”. The promo-code page sells it as “designed to function as a welcome bonus” with “no wagering requirements”. Both statements are true, and the reason they are true is the finding: Prize Funds are a secondary currency for entering the site’s prize competitions, they “can only be used when your real money Balance is at $0 in all currencies”, and they cannot be withdrawn. Raffle entries you may spend only once your cash is gone or withdrawn are not a 30% bonus in the sense a reader expects.

MetaMax loyalty. An Instant Bonus calculated every 30 minutes that “must be claimed within thirty (30) minutes” or expires (24.2), Daily and Weekly bonuses on wagering (24.3, 24.4), and Rank Up Rewards at lifetime wagering milestones (24.5, with “$1,000,000 for ranking up to Elite” per the FAQ). The percentages, tier thresholds and which rewards carry wagering are shown only in the logged-in rewards panel. The terms reserve the right to adjust “bonus calculations, eligibility criteria, wagering requirements, and expiration periods” at any time (24.7.2), to withhold rewards for “irregular gameplay patterns” (24.7.3), and state that the live dashboard “shall prevail” over the terms (24.7.5).

Free Spins Friday. Bronze and above, a weekly wagering target “anywhere between $50 and $1,000”, spins used within 48 hours, winnings at 1x wagering and paid only in USDT.

The score is 2.5 rather than the 3.0 a no-trap structure would otherwise earn for two sourced reasons. The headline “30% bonus” is a misdescription of a non-cash raffle currency, and the rewards economy has a dated record of moving after the fact: a Bitcointalk post of 12 February 2025 describes a $5,000 bonus advertised on a first $10,000 deposit, the winnings paid, then a requirement to wager “northwards up to $200k” to qualify; a Trustpilot review of 8 July 2026 describes 25% of a long-promoted “$4 million airdrop” redirected to the top 1,000 wagerers. Both are single accounts, cited as such. How to read a rewards economy like this one is in bonus terms decoded.

Payments & Restricted Countries

MetaWin accepts fourteen coins by its own list (BTC, ETH, SOL, USDT, USDC, DAI, LTC, DOGE, MATIC, BNB, TRX, BCH, EOS and XRP) across Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Polygon, Optimism, Blast and Solana. Deposits are instant except BTC at 10 to 15 minutes. “Fiat” is a MoonPay on-ramp (Visa, MasterCard, Maestro, Apple Pay, Google Pay, SEPA, PIX) that converts to crypto and runs MoonPay’s own ID-and-selfie check; there is no fiat balance. The withdrawal minimum is $20 equivalent. Fees and caps are the contradiction above. One more clause: 6.0.5 frames a deposit as “the purchase of a temporary licence granted to You by Us”, the hook for the no-refund language elsewhere.

On geography, the “ABSOLUTE RESTRICTIONS” list in T&C 11.4 reads, verbatim: “Australia; Austria; Aruba; Bonaire; Curaçao; Comoros; France; Germany; Netherlands; Spain; United Kingdom; United States” plus FATF call-for-action jurisdictions. Of the eleven markets this site tracks, the US, UK, Australia, Germany and Austria are restricted; the US, UK and Australia are also carved out of the licence itself. Canada is not on the list: “Ontario (Canada)” appears only on the Pragmatic Play content overlay, so Pragmatic titles may be unavailable to Ontario players while the rest of the casino is not contractually excluded. New Zealand, Norway, Finland and Switzerland are on no list. Ireland is the two-tier case: not excluded from the casino, but “Republic of Ireland” is on the separate Competition Excluded Jurisdictions list in clause 1.3.0, so Irish players cannot enter the prize draws that Prize Funds buy into.

The VPN clause has teeth. T&C 2.1: using “a VPN, proxy or similar service that masks or manipulates the identification of your real location” is a breach, and “You may be committing fraud and may be subject to criminal prosecution”. 19.1.8 lists VPN use as a deactivation ground and 19.1.17 attaches the right “to withhold all or part of the balance”. Playing from an excluded jurisdiction means “you will NOT BE ELIGIBLE to claim any Prizes won”.

Support

The support page, in its entirety, reads: “Contact our Support Desk. For immediate help, click below to contact our support team and create a ticket through Intercom.” Discord is a formal channel: the KYC Policy and the FAQ route requests to “a ticket at our Discord-Arena”. No support email address, no phone number and no hours appear on any page we read. AskGamblers’ editor describes “slow responses from the elusive customer care” and records an average response time of three days.

On disputes the structure is the issue. A ticket counts as a complaint only if it begins with the word “complaint” (18.0); the casino “endeavour[s] to respond … within 5 calendar days” and “no later than within eight weeks” (18.3); the ladder ends at “Senior Management … Their decision on the complaint is final”. No external ADR body and no regulator complaint address is named anywhere. The score is 2.0, not the floor, because MetaWin does engage with mediators to a degree (three of six Casino.Guru cases were decided in its favour, which requires a response), but the channels are the thinnest in our set and no neutral party sits behind them.

The Operator: Hack, Entity Swap, Group Litigation and the Review Signal

MetaWin launched in 2022 as an NFT prize-competition platform and grew a casino and sportsbook around it. Its founder, Richard Skelhorn, is public and runs giveaways from his own X account. The group, Arena Entertainment (London, with Gibraltar and Malta offices), lists MetaWin, WOW Vegas, Rolla, Gladiator Studios, Fanbase and Betzoo as its brands on its own site. Four points of operator character belong in the trust score.

The November 2024 hack, both halves. On 3 November 2024 an attacker exploited what reporting describes as the “frictionless withdrawal system” to drain about $4 million from MetaWin’s Ethereum and Solana hot wallets (Halborn’s post-mortem and The Block; secondary sources). Withdrawals were paused and later restored, and multiple outlets report that user balances were made whole, partly from the founder’s own funds. The failure was caused by exactly the no-friction cashier the brand markets, and it was handled, as far as public reporting goes, without socialising the loss onto players.

The entity swap. Asobi N.V. (a Curacao-registered company) to Rivolo Limited (Nevis), with the register gap described above and the old name still on two legal pages. Nothing we read explains the change. Casino.Guru’s and AskGamblers’ records were largely earned under Asobi; the live terms bind Rivolo.

The group’s US litigation, as context and not as a finding about metawin.com. MetaWin’s sister sweepstakes brands are run by MW Services Limited (Gibraltar, company 120828), co-founded by the same two people. Per court-docket references in industry coverage (secondary), Wieseman v. MW Services Ltd. (C.D. Ill., 3:25-cv-03216, filed 23 July 2025) and Mayhone et al. v. MW Services Limited, WOW Services Limited, WOWCom Services Inc., CyberHorizon Limited, Arena Entertainment Limited (N.D. Ill., 1:25-cv-08956, filed 30 July 2025) allege illegal gambling in Illinois; a RICO class action filed in New Jersey federal court in late November 2024 names the operators of WOW Vegas among others; and the Louisiana Department of Revenue has sued VGW and MW Services over roughly $44 million in sales tax. All are reported as active with no settlement. None of this is a player-treatment finding about the casino this review covers, and we draw no verdict on it; it is here because Arena Entertainment Limited is a named defendant.

The review signal. Trustpilot shows MetaWin at 3.9 on 364 reviews, 70% five-star and 25% one-star over the last twelve months, on a paid subscription with the contact country listed as the United Kingdom, a country MetaWin’s own terms exclude. Page six of the five-star filter carries a block of five-star reviews all posted on 23 April 2026 (twenty on that page alone, several back-dated by their authors), most of them about the founder rather than the product. Separately, the transparency page reports “Invited 0” for the last twelve months and “no recent records of MetaWin asking their customers to review them”, while the live profile shows every five-star from 25 September to 5 October 2026 (eleven of them) and one one-star tagged “Invited”. We record both as observations. The rubric treats a review-manipulation flag as minus 0.5 trust and requires us to say so; we do. The Trustpilot signal is real in part and manufactured in part; the mediated record is the part to rely on.

Verdict

MetaWin earns a 2.3, and the number is a warning. Everything in its favour is real and has been said: the Anjouan licence verifies on the register and on the regulator’s validator under Rivolo Limited through February 2027, routine on-chain withdrawals are reported as instant, there is no sticky bonus and no wagering trap, the 2024 hack was absorbed without taking player balances, and the operator is identifiable and public. There is no exit-scam signature here.

What pulls the score down is specific and sourced. Casino.Guru’s 2.9 “Very low” rests on a ledger of six complaints with zero resolved and three unresolved, meaning the mediator has never once seen this casino pay a disputed winner and has three times seen it decline to; AskGamblers is zero of three. The contract is written to produce that: “withhold funds at any point” (8.3), deactivation “for any reason whatsoever” (19.0), “MetaWin’s decision is final” (4.0.1), and no ADR or regulator named (22.1.1). The withdrawal caps are three disagreeing marketing tables over a contract that caps swaps out at 5 ETH a day and says it prevails. The largest sums in the record, $166,000 and 20,000 INR, are self-exclusion requests the index says were not honoured. And the five-star signal that would otherwise offset this carries a dated manipulation pattern.

Read fairly, MetaWin is usable for one thing: small, single-session crypto play from a clearly permitted country, by someone who turns over each deposit once, withdraws before the balance becomes worth reviewing, and treats Prize Funds as raffle tickets rather than a bonus. For a large balance, a self-exclusion you need honoured, a masked jurisdiction, or anyone who might one day need a neutral party to compel a payout, the documented pattern - a “management decision” with the balance kept, a mediator that has never seen the casino pay after it sided with the player, and no external body behind an Anjouan licence - is the reason to walk away. We do not promote MetaWin and no commission rides on this page. It is a warning because the record is.

Sources and evidence

• Licence (primary): the Anjouan Gaming public licence register, pulled live on 5 October 2026 (1,539 rows parsed; control entries Tsars, Wolfbet and Gamdom present), and the footer seal validated on verification.anjouangamingboard.org with its full seal id and stamp. Licence facts never come from review sites.
• MetaWin’s own pages (primary, read 5 October 2026): the Terms and Conditions (“Updated in January, 2026”), the FAQ, the KYC Policy, the Privacy Policy, the Responsible Gambling and Self-Exclusion pages, the promotions and promo-code pages, the providers page and the sitemap, rendered in full through a proxy and in a real browser session.
• Mediator records (primary reads of the platform pages): Casino.Guru’s MetaWin review page, whose individual docket threads were not readable from any route tried and are described from the complaint index only; AskGamblers’ review page with its three complaint texts and statuses; Trustpilot’s profile, 1-star pages 1-2, 5-star page 6 and the transparency page; Bitcointalk topics 5578771, 5530425 and 5483159. Trustpilot reviews are used only to show a pattern repeating, one dated account per pattern.
• Operator context (secondary unless noted): arenaentertainment.com brands page (primary); Halborn and The Block on the November 2024 hack; court-docket references as cited in industry coverage.
• Not published, by design: “never pays”, “rigged”, “rug”, any statement about what the site did during the 12-day register gap, and single-source allegations without a dated document behind them.
• RateCorner testing status: account created - no · deposit made - no · withdrawal tested - no. First-hand testing begins once our funded test protocol is live.

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